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Palestine News Network
April 11, 2018
The video shows the 17-year-old being questioned without the presence of a lawyer at Israel's Shaar Binyamin detention centre in the occupied West Bank on 26 December. The Israeli interrogators used verbal threats and intimidation techniques to coerce Ahed into cooperating with Israeli authorities.
The Intercept
April 10, 2018
A video showing the interrogation of Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was released by her family on Monday, with footage of Israeli interrogators threatening and intimidating the 17-year-old. At a press conference in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Tamimi's father, Bassem, announced the release of theÃâà...
Morocco World News
April 10, 2018
Rabat – A video depicting Palestinian teen protester Ahed Tamimi's prison interrogation was released on Monday by the teenager's parents. The footage shows the 17-year-old being threatened and coerced by her Israeli interrogators into “cooperating with the authorities.” According to Tamimi's father,Ãâà...
Modern Diplomacy
April 5, 2018
Ahed Tamimi, the detained Palestinian teenager, has accepted a plea deal and will spend eight months in the jail. She was convicted after being filmed kicking and slapping a Zionist soldier, outside her home in Nabi Saleh, in the Occupied West Bank, four months ago. Tamimi's sentence includes too a fineÃâà...
teleSUR English
April 4, 2018
The Daily Beast obtained a nearly 2-hour-long interrogation video of the jailed Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi from Dec. 26, in which two male Israeli interrogators are seen bearing down on the minor with intimidation tactics, such as threats against her family, even resorting to objectifying comments,Ãâà...
Middle East Eye
April 4, 2018
The lawyer of imprisoned Ahed al-Tamimi has accused an Israeli interrogator of sexually harassing the 17-year-old Palestinian girl, who was arrested last December from her hometown of Nabi Saleh village in the occupied West Bank for slapping an Israeli soldier on camera. Gaby Lasky filed a complaintÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
April 4, 2018
Israeli lawyer Gaby Lasky who is defending Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi has accused investigators of sexual harassment, Arab48.com reported yesterday. Lasky has filed several complaints against interrogators for verbal and physical sexual harassment but said that no investigations were opened intoÃâà...
Mondoweiss
March 30, 2018
At a time of general despair and loss of way for the Palestinian resistance, the trial of Ahed Tamimi is repositioning the Palestinian struggle in its original context: a confrontation between a mighty oppressive apparatus and a people aspiring to basic freedoms. The trial has also momentarily shed light on theÃâà...
Newsweek
March 27, 2018
On Wednesday (March 21), 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi entered Ofer military court with bright pink socks tucked underneath the metal shackles that held her feet together. In a prison-issued jacket that was too big for her, she smiled from cheek to cheek. The Israeli judge presiding over her case accepted aÃâà...
The Electronic Intifada
March 24, 2018
Ahed Tamimi was 16 years old when arrested and detained. Her crime against humanity is that with her bare hands she slapped an armed soldier. Now 17 years old, Ahed is not yet an adult – by international definition. Following a plea deal, she will spend eight months in prison. The reality is that Ahed isÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 23, 2018
Palestinian teenage girl Ahed Tamimi, who was filmed kicking and slapping an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank, has accepted a plea deal. Ahed Tamimi will spend eight months in prison alongside some 300 other minors in Israeli jails. Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid met her family to find out whyÃâà...
euronews
March 22, 2018
A teenage girl who became a global symbol of Palestinian resistance after being filmed slapping an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank has accepted a plea deal under which she will be sentenced to eight months in prison, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Under the agreement, Ahed Tamimi,Ãâà...
Radio Australia
March 22, 2018
Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi has been sentenced to eight months in prison for slapping and kicking a pair of Israeli soldiers outside her West Bank home, capping a case that sparked uproar in Israel, turned the 17-year-old girl into a Palestinian hero and attracted international attention. Ms Tamimi'sÃâà...
New York Times
March 22, 2018
JERUSALEM — Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian teenager whose angry altercation with an Israeli soldier outside her West Bank home made her a worldwide symbol of resistance but quickly got her jailed without bail, was sentenced in a military court on Wednesday to eight months in prison. Ms. Tamimi, 17Ãâà...
teleSUR English
March 21, 2018
Fadi Quran, coordinator of the Free Ahed Tamimi campaign, told Mondoweiss “Israel has made an immense effort to endanger her by putting her in the public spotlight for the past four months and by targeting her family for the last 10 years. It is hypocritical now to claim they want to protect her privacy.”.
Al-Arabiya
March 20, 2018
An Israeli military court has blocked a bid to make the high-profile trial of Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi public, meaning it will continue behind closed doors, her lawyer said Monday. “The Military Appeals Tribunal dismissed the defense's appeal against a closed trial,” Gaby Lasky wrote on Twitter. “A publicÃâà...
Middle East Eye
March 16, 2018
Coincidentally, a couple of weeks later, the Boston, MA Palestine Advocacy Project launched a campaign using Ahed Tamimi's picture on huge billboards. One poster shows the words free Nelson Mandela, with Mandela's name crossed out, and replaced by Ahed Tamimi's. Another says "Free PalestinianÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 10, 2018
After being arrested with her mother, Nariman, days after the Dec. 15 incident, the teen with long blond curly hair swiftly became a global symbol of resistance to Israeli occupation. Tamimi, now 17, did that by simply bucking a longstanding stereotype of Palestinian activists — hoary old warriors andÃâà...
Foreign Policy Journal (blog)
March 9, 2018
Ahed Tamimi epitomizes the antithesis of everything that the Palestinian Authority stands for. She is strong, morally-driven and defiant; the PA is subservient, morally bankrupt and quisling. As global voices continue to demand the freedom of 17-year-old teenage Palestinian girl Ahed Tamimi, IsraeliÃâà...
The Excelsior
March 7, 2018
For those of you who have never heard of the name “Ahed Tamimi,” you've surely seen her on the Internet. She's a beautiful young Palestinian girl with long, curly hair. Perhaps you've watched the video she is most famous for; you know, the one where she slaps and kicks an Israeli soldier outside herÃâà...
Haaretz
February 26, 2018
His arrest was approved by a military physician, the army added. Residents of Nabi Saleh believe that the motive for the raid was vengeance on the village and the Tamimi family. Ahed Tamimi is the Palestinian teen who is currently standing trial for slapping an Israeli solider on film. She has since becomeÃâà...
The Conversation UK
February 22, 2018
This is what's at issue in the case of Ahed Tamimi, the 17-year-old Palestinian girl who was arrested in December 2017 for slapping an Israeli soldier. A video of the incident, which went viral, was recorded by her mother, who was also arrested for uploading it. The slap came just an hour after the sameÃâà...
NEWS.com.au
February 20, 2018
Ahed Tamimi is a Palestinian activist who grew up in the village of Nabi Saleh, which is under Israeli occupation. Since a young age, she has taken part in protests against military occupation and the presence of soldiers in her town. She was eight years old when her mother was first arrested for disobeyingÃâà...
CNN
February 13, 2018
Israel has brought 12 charges against 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi, including aggravated assault against a soldier, incitement, obstructing a soldier in the performance of his duty, threatening a soldier and throwing stones at troops. Her mother, Nariman Tamimi, also faces charges including incitement.
Middle East Monitor
December 31, 1999
Dutch activists have renamed 13 streets and major roadways in several cities in The Netherlands after Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teenager imprisoned by Israel. One of the streets in question leads to the Embassy of Israel in Amsterdam. The Netherlands ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of theÃâà...
Equal Times
December 31, 1999
In a video that went viral, we can see Ahed Tamimi, together with her cousin, getting angry at two soldiers posted in the courtyard of their family home. The adolescent asks them to leave, pushes them, and finally slaps and kicks them. The soldiers remain stonily calm, but faced with her insistence they finallyÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
The one-dimensional coverage of Palestinians in the Israeli media is a problem that extends beyond Ahed Tamimi. News outlets know that Israeli audiences aren't interested in nuanced representations of Palestinian life under occupation. "On TV broadcasts, you can track ratings minute by minute.
